Method of making and applying pull-on devices.



E. O. JACOBS. I 7 METHOD OF MAKING AND APPLYING PULL-0N DEVICES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 18,1913.

Patented J an. 19, 1915.

W @laim s'aes UNITED STATES "PATE T curios.

ERNEST C. JACOBS, 0F ROCKLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINE-RY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A.

CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

mn'rnon on Men-moan!) APPLYING PULL-0N DEVICES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Applieationfiled June 18, 1913. Serial No. 774,334.

ing and Applying Pull-On Devices, of

which the. following description, in connecspecification, like-characters on the drawings representing E-like parts.

This invention. relates to a method or process of making pull-on" devices foriboots for carrying the methodiof my invention is an enlarged verticalsection of the pull-on.

device made in accordance with my invenpull-on device before it is attached to the shoe; Fig. 4 is a perspective view-of the core piece or filler; Fig, 5. is a perspective view offa strip which maybe employed in the manufacture of the. core piece'or filler, and Fig. 6 is a-front View, somewhat diagrammatically illustrating one method of making the pull-0n device. r

In my Patent No. 1,049,721, dated Jan. 7, 1913, I have illustrated and claimed a pullon device.

claim the method of making the same.

Heretofore shoe-pulls have commonly been made as straps composed of Webbing and formed into loopslarge enough to receive a finger of the user, the end of the strap being attached to the shoe upper. Such a loop'-like strap projects a considable distance above the -top of the shoeupper When new, and after the shoe has been worn a short time it becomes distorted,

usually being bent downward on the outside of the shoe, and in both instances, t 1s unsightly and objectionable, and particularly so in high priced shoes.

The. method ofmy invention has for its object'to provide boots and shoes with an improved formofpullson dev1ce, wh1ch is neat, attractive and highly efiicient, and

tion with the accompanyingdrawings,.is a

tion; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the In the present application I which in the represented embodiment thereof pro ects above the shoe but a short distance, and retains its original form after long use. I have herein represented one fornr or embodiment of pull-on device constructedin accordance with my invention, but it will be understood that the pull-on dBVlCB. may. be of varying form.

The pull-on device herein represented as the product of my invention is made as a tab instead of a loop, and has an enlarged or bulbous, end portion adapting it to be grasped by the fingers or fingers and thumb to bepulled on, in rawing the shoe on to the foot. In the form herein illustrated, I have represented the strap which may be of leather, cloth or other suitable material, and carry the, same around and secure it to a core piece orfiller by cement or other means, said strap serving as a covering strip for the core. piece and having its ends extended beyond said core piece for attachment to the shoe upper.

The core piece or filler may be, and preferably is, substantially triangular or wedgeshaped in cross-section, and has unequal length-sides admitting of one of its sides occupying a substantially vertical position at the inner side of the shoe, another side occupying a substantially horizontal position at the top, at right angles to the inner side, and the remaining side occupying a diagonal position as illustrated. As the covering strip conforms to the contour of the core piece or filler, the device will have anenlarged or bulbous end portion, adaptingit to be firmly grasped by the fingers.

Referring to the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the product of my method,a represents a shoe upper of. any suitable, desired, or ordinary construction. The upper a has a pull-on device attached to it by stitches or other means. Said pull-on device consists of a core piece or filler 10 and a covering strip 12 carried around said core piece, having free end portions for attachment to the upper. The core piece 10 may be composed of sole leather or other material of a substantial thickness, and is preferably triangular or wedge-shaped in cross-section, having its sides of unequal length. so that when in use its-top maybe substantially horizontal, its inner side substantially ver- Patented Jan. 19, 1915.,

tical. and its outer side extended rearward in a diagonal direction from the bottom to the top. The covering piece or strip 12 may be composed of upper leather, cloth or other suitable material made as a strap or band of a width approximately equal to the length of the core piece and of a length sufficient to surround the core piece and to form free ends for attachment to the upper, and said covering piece will be secured to the core piece and its free ends will be secured together, preferably, by cement or other means, thus making a device which may be conveniently handled while being attached to the upper. When the free end portions are attached to the upper, the loop-like portion inclosing the core piece extends, in the disclosed embodiment of the product of my invention, above the top of the upper for a short distance only, suflicient, however, to be graspedby the fingers when pulling on the shoe.

The device is preferably attached to the upper with the apex of the core piece substantially on .a level with the top of the upper, so that the core piece will not interfere with the operation of bending rearward that portion of the device extending above the upper, so as to obtain a firm hold upon it when pulling on the shoe. It will be observed that the pull-on device prO ects but a short distance above the top of the upper 1 and is neat and attractive in appearance.

In case the core piece is formed of other shape than triangular in'cross-section, an enlarged or bulbous end'portion is still produced, which may be one embodiment of the product of my invention herein claimed. As a simple method of making the pull-on device, I may take a long strip of sole leather, as represented at 15 in Fig. 5, which is herein shown as of quadrangular form in cross-section, and in such case I sever the same longitudinally, the line of severance being diagonal and extending from one upper corner to the opposite lowercorner of 1 the strip, thus forming two wedge-shaped strips, two of the sides of which are at right angles to each other. The covering strip 12 may be cut out by dies or any other suitable means, so that they will be of approximately the samesize and shape. Then several of these strips may be folded around the long core piece side by side, as shown in Fig. 6, and,

will be cemented to said core piece or strip and their free ends may then be cemented together. Then the long core strip having several covering strips thereon will be severed transversely at points between the covering strips, so that each severed portion forms a completed pull-on device ready for attachment to the shoe upper.

I It will, of course, be understood that I am not limited to the specific method herein illustrated, but that the pull-on device-may be made by first providing a core piece of the desired size for a single pull-on device, and then wrapping about and securing thereto a covering piece or strip of the proper size for a single pull-on device and substantially as illustrated in Fig. 3. In

other words, I may in accordance with my method manufacture the pull-on devices able length for a number of pull-on devices and preferablytriangular in section, this strip being made in any suitable manner, and may then wrap thereabout a single covering strip piece of. sufficient size to provide for a number of pull-on devices, such covering strip corresponding in size to the length of the core strip. I may then, in any suitable manner, sever the core strip and covering strip piece at suitable intervals to provide a number of pull-on devices. Previous to the severing operation, the covering strip piece is secured to the core piece in any suitable manner, as by cement, the covering strlp piece be ng ofsuch size as to provide projecting free ends such as illustrated in Fig. 3. Instead of applying the cement before the severing operation it may be applied afterward, but I prefer to apply the cement or other securing material before the blank is severed into pull-on devices.

Obviously, the pull-on device may be con- I structed by first attaching the loop-like covering strip to the upper and then insertmg the core piece or filler therein, and se- 7 curing it in position by cement or other means, but preferably I first complete the pull-0n device and'thereafter attach it to the shoe.

Having thus described my invention, .I declare that what I claim as my invention, 1s:-

l. The method herein described of makmg pull-on devices for boots and shoes, which consists in folding a plurality of straps transversely about a core strip, side by side, andsecuring them thereto, and then severmg said core strip transversely between thestraps.

2. That method-of making pull-on devices for boots and shoes which consists in se'vering a strip of quadrilateral cross-section longitudinally to form two core strips of trlangular cross section, folding a plurality of straps transversely about said core strips side by side with their free ends extended free ends to the pull-on devices for boots and shoes which comprises the steps of providing a core piece of substantially triangular cross-section, Wrapping a covering strap thereabout' with its free ends projecting beyond the apex of said core piece and fiatwise against each other, securing said covering strap to said core piece,

upper of the boot or shoe. l. The method herein described of making pull-011 devices for boots and shoes which consists in folding a plurality of straps transversely about a core-strip, side by side, with their free ends extended beyond the core-strip and securing said free ends together and then severing said corestrip transversely between the straps.

and thereafter securing said- 5. The method herein described of making pull-0n devices for boots and shoes which consists in severing a strip of quadrilateral cross section longitudinally to form two core-strips of triangular cross section, folding a plurality of straps transversely about said core-strips, side by side, and securing them thereto, strips transversely between the straps.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

\ ERNEST C. JACOBS. Witnesses:

ARTHURE. CARsoN, ROBERT-H. KAMMLER.

and then severing the core- 

